Lecturer @thestrandgroup @KingsCollegeLon |Author ‘The Art of Delivery’ PM’s Delivery Unit & public service reform | Govt | Tech | Scottish & Pakistani heritage
An honour & joy to chair fascinating @thestrandgroup w/ @MichaelBarber9 & Tony Blair @InstituteGC to launch ‘Accomplishment: How To Achieve Ambitious and Challenging Things’.
Michael has created a tapestry of compelling case studies to explain accomplishment across many fields!
My Autumn column for @CSWnews
‘The Office for the Prime Minister And Cabinet has been “embraced with gusto” - but what about Burnham’s plans for the Treasury?’
Free-to-read!
https://t.co/vcUfTnUoLX
The vast majority of the MA Government Studies’ first cohort are now employed in relevant sectors including the Treasury, Home Office and Cabinet Office.
Read their stories and discover why our MA is so attractive to employers https://t.co/XzyDfUC2Mf
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Over 60% of our first cohort are now civil servants in the Treasury, the Home Office and Cabinet Office.
Join us for cohort three this Autumn: https://t.co/GU3RSueeWF
Many thanks to Dame Sarah Healey, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and soon to be the new Permanent Secretary of the Department for Work and Pensions, for a fabulous King’s College London MA Government Studies masterclass
A limited number of rare full & half studentships are available for MA Government Studies this year.
If you have a passion for understanding British government, apply here before the deadline (30 June):
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A wonderful climax to the 'Chancellors and the Treasury' @thestrandgroup module - many thanks to Dr Kwasi Kwarteng who spoke on 'Being Chancellor' during the infamous 2022 mini-budget offering students an unique insider's perspective
Join us in 2026 👇🏽
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Perfect end to our @thestrandgroup London governance module this year - across to City Hall for an excellent session with Deputy Mayor @howarddawber discussing the mayoralty today.
Some of the class then celebrated with a ‘flight’ on the cable car🚠 👋
Prof @edballs on the highly successful @polcurrency highlighting the modern day value of our Treasury case study teaching on the 1976 IMF crisis - how common ground was found between heavyweights Callaghan Healey Benn & Crosland
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‘The Art of Delivery’ is reviewed alongside Jonathan Simcock’s ‘The Delivery Gap’ and Nick Gibb and Robert Peal’s ‘Reforming Lessons’.
📣 Delighted to read this review of my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ by Ferdinand Mount in @TheTLS
✍️ ‘Seldom since Samuel Pepys have the comings and goings in Whitehall been so meticulously recorded...’
Full 📕 review 🔗 https://t.co/jPH282mhA3
@BitebackPub@thestrandgroup
'It is not true that the British system cannot deliver the goods – so long as the goods are deliverable.'
Ferdinand Mount: The British state fails when it innovates
https://t.co/W0dcJcJrFY
'It is not true that the British system cannot deliver the goods – so long as the goods are deliverable.'
Ferdinand Mount: The British state fails when it innovates
https://t.co/W0dcJcJrFY
Huge congratulations to our Visiting Professors Sir Michael Barber and Catherine MacLeod having been raised to the peerage.
Both are wonderful teachers on our MA Government studies programme:
https://t.co/miwMU48GXH
Delighted to welcome Lord Francis Maude to ‘History of the Civil Service’ class to reflect on his experience as a reforming minister during the Cameron government
Part of @thestrandgroup MA Government Studies 👇
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@policyatkings@KingsSSPP@KingsCollegeLon
Wonderful to have our @thestrandgroup MA students hosted by @40Leadenhall for a fascinating session with @_BusinessLDN's @muniya_b , discussing London's business community and its role in the capital's development
Great to have Councillor @clairekholland, Leader of Lambeth Council (one of @KingsCollegeLon's home boroughs) and chair of London Councils, join our @thestrandgroup London government module to share her insights into how London's boroughs operate today.